Scuba Diving Destinations

One destination at a time. Each guide here is a deep look at a specific place, the dive sites worth knowing, the conditions to expect, and an honest read on what the diving actually delivers there. Reef systems, wreck dives, pinnacle sites, and liveaboard expeditions, written from time spent in each place.

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Diving Cozumel Mexico 🇲🇽

Cozumel is drift diving over walls with 30m viz. Here's everything you need to know about this amazing diving destination

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Amed, Bali Indonesia 🇮🇩

Shore diving over black sand, no fight for a place on the boat. Nudibranchs, frogfish and ghost pipefish in 15 to 30 metres of viz.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Playa del Carmen Mexico 🇲🇽

The cenotes are why serious divers come, underground rivers with infinite visibility. Bull sharks hold right through the winter.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Puerto Galera Philippines 🇵🇭

The healthiest reefs I have ever dived, inside the Verde Island Passage. Mimic octopus, blue-ringed octopus, nudibranchs everywhere.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Marsa Alam Egypt 🇪🇬

A dugong grazing at Marsa Mubarak, snorkellers above and divers below, carrying on regardless. Daedalus lies 80km offshore.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Malpelo Colombia 🇨🇴

The first orcas ever recorded here surfaced beside the boat. Hammerheads school in their hundreds, 36 hours out from Buenaventura.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Hurghada Egypt 🇪🇬

Eighty percent of the coral off the hotel coast is gone. What survives still delivers dolphins on more dives than any reef I know.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Koh Tao Thailand 🇹🇭

Whale sharks have cruised past more times than I can pretend is normal. Granite pinnacles, schooling barracuda, 27 to 30 degrees.

Scuba Diving Destinations

Diving Santa Marta Colombia 🇨🇴

Octopus in the open, parrotfish asleep in mucous cocoons, and coral good by Caribbean standards, inside a park protected since 1969.